1. Tofu Stuffed

Tofu Stuffed is a must-eat food in Yulin, Wuzhou, Hezhou and other places in Guangxi during the winter solstice, and it is also a common local snack. Mix minced meat, radish and other ingredients into stuffing and stuff it into tofu. After steaming and cooking, it is called a warm food in winter.

2. Chicken

As the saying goes, dogs are afraid of the summer solstice and chickens are afraid of the winter solstice. In Guangxi, eating chickens on the winter solstice is also a traditional custom. On the winter solstice, many families will kill chickens and worship God. After worshipping God, the family will enjoy chicken and spend the winter solstice.

3. Old duck pot

Chicken and duck are eaten in the winter solstice, and the custom of eating duck in the winter solstice is more common in Nanning. In Nanning, there is a saying that the winter solstice "body heat" wants to eat ducks. On the winter solstice, there is a lot of hot air accumulated in people's bodies, which needs to be removed, while duck meat is mild in taste, and it is very delicious to cook soup and cut it. Most people in Guangxi like to cook a steaming old duck pot and enjoy the cold with their families.

Historical origin

The winter solstice is one of the "twenty-four solar terms". "Twenty-four solar terms" and "December construction" are the basic contents of the dry calendar, which was concluded in ancient times (or ancient times). According to ancient books, the Emperor of Heaven began to make the name of cadres and branches to determine the age. "Twenty-four solar terms" is a special festival in the dry calendar, which indicates the season, phenology, climate change and the establishment of "December construction".

in ancient times, the "twenty-four solar terms" were determined by the direction of the top of Beidou bucket handle. One year old is divided into "Twelve Chens" (built in December) in the Ganzhi calendar. "Building" represents the direction of the top of Beidou bucket handle, and bucket handle rotates to "Twelve Chens" in turn.

In the traditional culture, the time and orientation of the branches and branches are linked with the gossip, and the yin position is the "root position" of the gossip the day after tomorrow, which is the orientation of the year-end and the beginning of the year, representing the end and the beginning, such as Yi Shuo Gua Zhuan: "The root, the divination in the northeast, is also the beginning of everything."

Therefore, bucket handle starts from the north of due east (Yin position, and the gossip position the day after tomorrow) and makes a circle through the south, west and north, which is a cycle. It began in the beginning of spring and ended in the great cold. When bucket handle points to the "sub" position due north, it is the winter solstice solar term.